Lafarge Breaking Ground into a More Prosperous Future for Silver Grove, Kentucky, an Industrial Info News Alert

Business Wire, August 3, 2006

SUGAR LAND, Texas -- Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). The new proposal came just five years after the $94 million, 500,000-square-foot drywall plant opened in mid-2000, becoming the largest drywall plant in North America. Now, Lafarge North America, Incorporated (NYSE & TSX:LAF) is expected to add 100 full-time jobs at its gypsum drywall plant along the Ohio River in Silver Grove, Kentucky. The proposal called for a 143,000-square-foot expansion at its existing plant at a cost of approximately $120 million. Already capable of producing 900 million square feet of half-inch wallboard annually, the expansion is expected to increase that capacity to 1.6 billion square feet per year. Lafarge's board of directors voted in November 2005 to approve the new expansion. On May 12, 2006, the official groundbreaking ceremony took place with the use of the traditional golden shovel. The groundbreaking was accompanied by speeches, an open house, a tour of the existing facility, free food and live music.

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